A consideration of possible receiver designs for solar tower plants

The influence of certain astronomical and constructive parameters on the concentration of solar radiation with plane heliostats fields

“…The simple enumeration of the remark above, reveals that for the time being, there still are differences of principle on certain aspects of a HFT, fact which has been already noted by other authors [8,17].…”

“…The image plane was covered with 21 x 21 points rows both in east-west and nadirzenith directions. The distance between the points rows, in both directions, is p = 0.25 m. We analysed the following eight points (I, J) : A(5,11 ), B (6,11 ), C (7,16), D (7,11), E ( 11,17), F(l 1, 16), G ( 11,15), H (11,11).…”

“…The tower on which the receiver is placed is located either in the south or in the centre of the heliostats field [1,5,8,14,15], and its height is in the range of several thousand meters [8,9] and 450 m [2,3]. The receiver can be parallelipipedical [1,14], spherical [3,17], cylindrical [lb] or have a more complicated form [18].…”